Privacy policy

Last updated 10 October 2026

The short version

HyperClip keeps what you copy on your own Mac and nowhere else. The app collects nothing about you and sends nothing anywhere.

What the app stores

HyperClip records what you copy to the clipboard: text, images and references to files, along with the name of the app it came from and when. For images it also stores the text it recognises in them, which is worked out on your Mac.

You choose where this is kept. It is either written to an encrypted file inside the app's own storage on your Mac, with the encryption key held in your Keychain, or kept in memory only and discarded when the app quits or the Mac restarts.

Items that other apps mark as confidential, as password managers do, are skipped unless you turn that off.

What the app sends

Nothing. HyperClip makes no network connections. There is no account, no analytics, no crash reporting and no advertising. Links in the app, such as the tip link, open in your web browser.

Permissions it asks for

Accessibility access is used for one thing: pressing Paste in the app you are working in when you pick an item. If you turn on launch at login, macOS records that as a login item.

Deleting your data

You can clear the history from the app's menu or its settings at any time. Switching to memory-only storage erases the encrypted file and its key. Deleting the app's data in the usual macOS way removes everything.

This website

This site uses no cookies and no trackers of its own. It is hosted by Cloudflare, which, like any web host, processes requests for the pages and may log technical details such as IP addresses.

Feedback you send

If you report a problem or suggest a feature on this site, what you type is stored so it can be read and, for approved feature requests, shown publicly. An email address is stored only if you enter one. To limit spam and count one vote per visitor, a scrambled form of your IP address is kept; the address itself is not.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.